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ELON MUSK: “They modeled Iron Man in the movies after me. Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau met with me and toured SpaceX.”

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[–] jack@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago (7 children)

The first movie was filmed in 2007. Did anybody even know who he was then?

He did get a pathetic suck-off cameo in the third movie.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I found this article through Wikipedia that says they did tour SpaceX while filming the first movie: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/ (warning: it's from 2015, so it still has Musk so-true shit)

I vaguely remember hearing about him in 2008 when the first Tesla Roadster was released. His cameo was in the second Iron Man, unless he was in the third one and I forgor.

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago

They used Space X as the filming location for Hammer Industries in Iron Man 2. Which is it's own nugget because Musk is more of a Justin Hammer than Stark, depending on how much credit you want to give Stark as a character.

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